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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
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Investigating the Distribution of Health Resources in Iran by Using Gini Coefficient (2011-2020) [PDF]

فصلنامه رفاه اجتماعی, 2023
Introduction: One of the most important goals of health systems and policy makers in this field is equality in access to health services. Inequality in the distribution of health resources leads to different health levels between different regions of the
Akbar Khodabakhshi, Zahra Asemaneh
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Exclusive Bus Lane Allocation Considering Multimodal Traffic Equity Based on Bi-Level Programming

Applied Sciences, 2023
To ensure the equity of exclusive bus lane (EBL) allocation under multimodal traffic conditions, a bi-level programming model is first constructed. The upper-level model is the minimum total system cost considering the Gini coefficient and the lower ...
Xiaojuan Lu, Jianjun Wang, Choon Wah Yuen, Shiyu Zheng   +3 more
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Increase in Pancreatoduodenectomy Volume at Mid‐Volume Facilities in the United States: A National Cancer Database Analysis

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The annual number of pancreatoduodenectomies (PDs) in the United States has increased over the past decade, but the facility types driving this growth and whether outcomes have improved remain unclear. We aimed to identify characteristics of facilities with increasing PD volumes and assess national trends in centralization ...
Koichi Tomita, Naruhiko Ikoma
wiley   +1 more source

Inverse Engineering of Mg Alloys Using Guided Oversampling and Semi‐Supervised Learning

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
End‐to‐end design of engineering materials such as Mg alloys must include the properties, structure, and post‐synthesis processing methods. However, this is challenging when destructive mechanical testing is needed to annotate unseen data, and the processing methods for hypothetical alloys are unknown.
Amanda S. Barnard
wiley   +1 more source

Economic analysis of potato and tomato trade in Romania: The Gini coefficient [PDF]

Western Balkan Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2023
Potatoes and tomatoes are the key vegetables of Romanian agriculture, due to their consumption and the large growing areas. The paper analyses import and export of potatoes and tomatoes, and import and export prices for these vegetables, while based on ...
Zapucioiu Luiza Florentina, Sterie Maria Cristina, Dumitru Eduard Alexandru   +2 more
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What to Make and How to Make It: Combining Machine Learning and Statistical Learning to Design New Materials

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Combining machine learning and probabilistic statistical learning is a powerful way to discover and design new materials. A variety of machine learning approaches can be used to identify promising candidates for target applications, and causal inference can help identify potential ways to make them a reality.
Jonathan Y. C. Ting, Amanda S. Barnard
wiley   +1 more source

How do mean division shares affect growth and development [PDF]

Panoeconomicus, 2017
The Gini coefficient is widely used in academia to discuss how income inequality affects development and growth. However, different Lorenz curves may provide different development and growth outcomes while still leading to the same Gini coefficient. This
Shao Liang Frank
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RPSLearner: A Novel Approach Based on Random Projection and Deep Stacking Learning for Categorizing Non‐Small Cell Lung Cancer

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Identifying non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) subtypes is essential for precision cancer treatment. Conventional methods are laborious, or time‐consuming. To address these concerns, RPSLearner is proposed, which combines random projection and stacking ensemble learning for accurate NSCLC subtyping. RPSLearner outperforms state‐of‐the‐art approaches in
Xinchao Wu, Jieqiong Wang, Shibiao Wan
wiley   +1 more source

The gap and two-level differentiation in kindergarten education funding groups in China

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This paper examines the disparity in kindergarten education funding between different groups from 2012 to 2018 through the Gini coefficient and decomposition techniques.
Jiantao Chen, Xiao Wang, Xiang Luo
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